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The flush method sometimes works for me, I've yet to try anything else. Updates seem to have dried up, so I assume that Rocket and Co. are now concentrating on the Standalone version, which makes sense. After all, we were just testing a product that ended up being set to sell. I've been lucky during the development of DayZ, I suffered very few glitches, but since the latest patch I, like just about everyone, suffer from these artifacts. I can't go near any military areas unless I run around looking at the floor, which is not ideal, I'm sure you'll agree. Not to worry though, we can all (hopefully) look forward to a finely polished version when the Standalone is released soon. Then we can play away to our hearts content and look back on the days of glitches, hackers and artifacts with rose tinted glasses. Maybe.

Have a check to see that you (a) Have a fully updated version of DayZ, and Have the latest beta patch for ARMA. I recently had the same problem, and although I was fully up to date, the only way I could bypass this issue was to 'remote' into the server I was looking to join. Instead of finding the server on the ARMA in game list, use the 'remote' option at the bottom of the screen, input the correct IP address and port info, and connect that way. Hope that helps!

I had to Google it, and its about grown men who enjoy watching My Little Pony. I've seen this before on other forums, and I just don't get it. Why do grown men get so excited over a kids cartoon that's meant for girls? But hey, each to their own, but I'll stick with watching programmes that have less sinister connotations.

Hmm, seems my latest playthrough has caused this issue again in Berezino. Despite being fixed earlier, a return visit had the glitch to a smaller degree, but with flashing white squares in places. Looked quite pretty. Think it might be down to HDR or another setting though, as I whacked them back up once I'd left the town the first time and carried on away from there.

Yep, I can add that it's just happened to me today, although it's been at least a day or two since the last update and I hadn't had any problems until now. First saw a small area of it around NWAF, I restarted the game and it fixed it. Next I saw it in Berezino and it only seemed to effect the centre of the town, so it was probably caused by the tents next to the hospital. I could stand in the supermarket and look at the hospital and the screen goes crazy, look away from the hospital and everything is fine. Will try the NFOpad fix, see if that works. EDIT- That fix worked for me.

Pretty bad? ARMA was/is a hardcore soldier sim; a genre that only appeals to people who are interested in sims of that nature. DayZ came along and put a new, more appealing spin on the game. Zombie shooters are going to have a bigger fanbase than soldier sims, in the same way that MS Flight Simulator is going to be more niche than Ace Combat/ HAWX. To critisise a game because it is a niche genre is a failed argument IMO. My memory may fail me a little, but wasn't Counter Strike originally a mod of Half Life? It then became a standalone game due to its massive success? I wonder if people whinged because they "bought HL so they could play CS, and then they brought out CS:Source standalone and why should I pay for it again?" DayZ is a mod, and a free one at that. Stop this 'entitled' attitude that seems rife here, DayZ & Rocket owe us nothing. Its a FREE game, and its in Alpha state too, so its going to be bugged. The mod is a success and is very likely to be released in a standalone format. When that happens, we'll have a solid, bug free game that I'll happily pay for if I'm still interested in the game by this point. If you only bought ARMA to play DayZ, you're not retarded for doing so, as others have suggested, but it is a shame that you feel more entitled to receive discounts, preferential treatment or whatever, than people like me who've bought ARMA for the game it was, then found the mod years later.

To be fair, at first me and my mate would struggle with this, we'd try and pronounce where the hell we were and just confuse each other when it came to finding each other. In the end we just printed off an A4 sized map that is one of many out there, it has the Cyrillic and English name for each town written on it. Although we're getting familiar with the towns now, to find exactly where we are we look at the signposts at the entrance / exit of each town, read the Cyrillic name and just find it on the map. The map we use is not much use as its zoomed out, so its like using a road atlas to navigate by, but it shows enough for us to get around fairly easily. Try doing that instead of having your netbook open perhaps?

I've seen Zed's get things like that before, once so far I got shoved over by a Zed and instantly fell unconscious. They then feasted on my body and I died after a few minutes. Was quite a shock as I've never seen one push a Survivor over before or since!

Just been on UK6 and there's no loot at all, everything seemed to vanish as I was transiting from one town to the next. My mate reported the same and he was in Elektro. I tried UK8 and that was the same there, not even tin cans, just bare loot points. Anyone else having this issue? The servers seem to be emptying as well from what I can see...

Yeah, it was Vybor that I saw this happen earlier. Had been in Stary and found good loot, moved to Vybor and it was bare. Not to worry, I'll try again later. EDIT: Come to think of it, when I went to UK8 there was a vest-pouch in the market in Vybor, but that was the only thing there and in the school/office block next door. Odd how just the one thing was there.

Want? I didn't have to pay anything for this mod so I don't have a need to demand anything from it, I just play it for what it is, and enjoy the ride as things change. Been playing it for around two months now and seen a lot change already. It's not about 'wanting' anything from it, we're here to test the game and highlight the bugs, not whinge and moan because stuff breaks or we don't have this or that feature. I don't want anything other than to be able to keep playing it for what it is.

Stepping over the wire doesn't always work, it depends on how its set up. (I don't know what that way is, as I've yet to use wire) I've managed to step over some, but not others. I ended up getting trapped in a barn with two other guys who'd been able to use the steps inside to get over one length of wire, but then we had no way to get out again. Just couldn't step over it. Glitches in using the steps inside meant those two guys had broken legs and had to suicide to get out, and I was forced to server hop in order to get out of the barn again.

Ah, I see what you mean now OP, I just came off a server that had the rain SFX but no actual rain GFX, but every zed and animal all around me had a white blob on them, just like what appears at the side of the screen. This was showing me all creatures in my vicinity, regardless of LoS.

Overpowered? Maybe I just need more practice, but I hated using them. Zeds have to be right in front of you hacking away at me whilst I'm hacking away at them. Every encounter I've had where I've used the hatchet and I've come away bleeding as the few chops it takes to put a zed down, they've grabbed me a few times in return.

I thought the idea was that only you, the person who placed it, could access a tent - anyone else looking in it wouldn't see anything.

I think perhaps the vehicle spawns could be a little more plentiful, I'd been playing the game for a couple of months before I saw my first vehicles. Both times I found a vehicle I would drive off and shortly afterwards someone would open fire on me and destroy it. Seems the initial reaction when seeing a vehicle is open fire and stop that person having it.

If your talking about the white dots/blobs that appear at the side of the screen, then yes, this is a feature of ARMA and not a bug. They notify you of things that are near you, players, zeds, animals and vehicles. They change in size and brightness depending on how close or far away from you they are.

After all of that.... Why u dont kill him ? Because he could have just killed me right from the start when he saw me in the church. As it was we both had a bit of fun in the shoot-out and I was ready to die anyway. He gave me that kit and I didn't feel I needed to kill him. I've done some malicious killing in the past of Survivors, but I just didn't want to this time.

I just had an interesting encounter. I had respawned and just fancied messing about, so ran into Cherno gathering zeds behind me. I managed to lose them all though and went looting. I was looking around the church when I heard someone say "Woah whoa there!" I turned around and this guy is coming in with weapon pointed at me. He had an MP5SD. He had the drop on me so I put my hands up and slowly walked out, asking if it was his stash. He said it wasn't and I could have what I want. I saw him leave the church after me so I went in for the loot. A bit more wandering around and I hear him say "I'm stalking you!" A bit of fun and he was watching me through the windows of a house. He then said if I was still in the house he was going to throw a grenade - I couldn't do much as I was prone and sending a text message. The explosion made me jump (had volume up loud) but had no effect on me. What then followed was a game of cat and mouse between us. We spent a few minutes chasing each other around throwing smoke grenades and ended up having a shoot-out in another house. I'd hit him a few times with my revolver, and he'd hit me quite a lot - I had broken legs, lots of blood loss, all the bad stuff. I told him to just end it; I was dying, couldn't walk, and had no ammo - just the crowbar left. I saw him looking through the window at me, and I was whacking the floor with my crowbar, telling him to finish me. He then disappeared. I went outside and saw him crouched in the road with his back to me. "Time for last ditch revenge!" I thought, and crawled up behind him and started whacking him with the crowbar. "Hey, that's not fair man, I was going to help you" he said, so I stopped hitting and just waited for the bullet in the head. None came. He proceeded to give me loads of steaks, enough to get my blood back up. Whilst I was munching two other survivors appeared and tried to kill us. This guy (I didn't get his name) took them both down, as well as any zeds that approached. Once I was back to strength, he then surprised me by giving me more food, a ghuillie suit, an AS-50, NVG's and some ammo. I was very thankful and surprised with these gifts, all he asked for was my flashlight - apparently he's a member of the 'Somali Pirates' clan and their calling card so to speak, is to give each other flashlights. Once we'd finished, he just disappeared into the buildings, and I just got the hell out of Cherno and into the forests. Thanks buddy, I thought I was a gonner there, and you helped me out!

I spawned in a place I'd never been to the other day, I can only presume it was somewhere way up on the northern coast. (Have new spawn points been added lately?) Anyway I'd spawned near a building. As I was getting my bearings, I heard a zed cry out. It was one of those monkey-running ones lumbering over to me. "No problem" I think, "I'll just run away from him." Except that three more runners suddenly appeared before I'd even moved my character. With no weapons, it was game over already. I stood and let them feast on me. Shortest life ever. Better luck next spawn.

I think it's an issue being addressed in patches. This week since I put the last round of updates on, I've not found any food or drink. Weapons were scarce, but equipment was quite common. Binoculars, Maps, Watches, Compasses were easily found, and Axes were bloody everywhere! I tried several servers in different countries during that time, and always had the same problem. Just hang on a while and it'll be sorted soon enough.

Stupidest death was the other day for me. My guy was 7 days old and had some fairly good kit. I'd spent the past few days running between the NW & NE airbases looking for loot. I got a little cocky near a small building and attracted the attention of one of those monkey crawling zeds. Not a problem, I'll just keep running. Suddenly a runner zed spawned behind me and began chasing. Also not a problem, I'll just do my usual tactic of running then turning to face them, backpedaling and shooting. Except this time it failed - somehow. As I turned, the zed shoved me, and I fell over backwards, to instantly fall unconscious. He began to feast on me, and my guy lay there moaning. Then the monkey crawling zed caught up and started munching too. My guy died after being pushed over by a zombie. I wasn't very happy.

Harsh. But amusing none the less. No honour among Bandits!

I made my way into a city (which later turned out to be Elecktro) and was wandering around looking for loot. I saw a guy run into a house with a conga-line of zombs behind him, so I said to him via text that I would come and help him. I legged it down to the house, and put some rounds into the zombs that were around him, and entered the house I'd seen him go into. I couldn't find him, so presumed he'd gone out the back door and ran whilst I was making noise and causing a distraction. I made my way into a building that was on three floors, and found the corridors littered with dead zombies, and at one end the body of a Survivor. Looked to me that he had got his back to the wall fighting, and eventually succumbed to their numbers. I found a lot of loot in that building, food, water, bandages and ammo. I got to the roof, and looked out to (what I later found out was the hospital) and saw a guy on the roof shooting some zombies below. I texted out to him with the usual "Hey, guy on roof, you need some help?" He stopped firing, and I saw him look at me, so I knew he knew I was here. I asked him if he wanted some supplies, as I'd gotten loads from where I was. He said he'd have some if I could spare any, and we agreed that I would come over to him, and he would cover me as I ran across the road to where he was. I ran over there, and as I got near, a bunch of zombs came at me from the bottom of the ladder. He typed to me warning of them being there, (bit late by then) but I killed them and went to climb the ladder. Just as I got to the ladder, someone shot at me, and I dived away around a corner to bandage myself. I typed WTF??? to him, and he asked what was up. I said someone had shot me, and he replied he'd not heard any shots fired. Feeling like it could be a trap, I climbed up to meet him anyway. When I reached the top with him, he suddenly died, and collapsed on the ledge next to me. I hit the deck again and said "What the hell just happened?" He didn't know what I was on about. "You just died dude!" "No I didn't, I'm still alive!" he said. Turns out, this guy I was talking to was on a different roof, and not even the bloke I was looking at! Oddly though, when I looted the body of the guy who died in front of me, I saw another body at the bottom of the ladder. He had a map and other choice bits of kit. I wonder if he was the person who shot at me originally? Tried to chase me up the ladder but somehow died. Doesn't explain how the guy at the top died though, didn't see any blood or hear gunshots.